...We’ve all been victim to that; anyone who says that they haven’t is either lying or under the age of 13 years. So when a teenage girl undertakes such an incredible task of courage, one that adults cover in fear of doing, the event takes utmost significance. This is exactly what Malala Yousafzai, a huge inspiration to me and so many other girls did. Being only fourteen years old did not matter to Malala Yousafzai. In a short fourteen years she has won fame for fighting for peace, women’s rights and humanity. She won the National Peace award in Pakistan for all her efforts. In 2009- at only the age of 11- she fought Taliban insurgency that tried to take over her village of Swat. She wanted to set up her own political party which would campaign the right of young Pakistani girls to education. This girl- this heroine- was shot by a member of the Taliban, in the head and neck, and was in a critical condition. The Taliban called her work ‘obscenity’. I call it heroism. They tried to silence this girl forever- they tried, and are still trying, to silence the ideas of freedom, rights and equality forever. But they will not win this war, not while human beings like Malala breathe and fight. An army chief called Malala ‘an icon of courage and hope’. She’s more than that, she’s the dawn of a new generation, the leader of a revolution in which humanity and justice rules over the whole world. On her blog she writes about how she couldn’t go to school anymore and how she always was living in...
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...I AM MALALA The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb Weidenfeld & Nicolson LONDON To all the girls who have faced injustice and been silenced. Together we will be heard. Contents Cover Title Page Dedication Prologue: The Day my World Changed PART ONE: BEFORE THE TALIBAN 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 A Daughter Is Born My Father the Falcon Growing up in a School The Village Why I Don’t Wear Earrings and Pashtuns Don’t Say Thank You Children of the Rubbish Mountain The Mufti Who Tried to Close Our School The Autumn of the Earthquake PART TWO: THE VALLEY OF DEATH 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Radio Mullah Toffees, Tennis Balls and the Buddhas of Swat The Clever Class The Bloody Square The Diary of Gul Makai A Funny Kind of Peace Leaving the Valley PART THREE: THREE BULLETS, THREE GIRLS 16 17 18 19 20 The Valley of Sorrows Praying to Be Tall The Woman and the Sea A Private Talibanisation Who is Malala? PART FOUR: BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH 21 ‘God, I entrust her to you’ 22 Journey into the Unknown PART FIVE: A SECOND LIFE 23 ‘The Girl Shot in the Head, Birmingham’ 24 ‘They have snatched her smile’ Epilogue: One Child, One Teacher, One Book, One Pen . . . Glossary Acknowledgements Important Events in Pakistan and Swat A Note on the Malala Fund Picture Section Additional Credits and Thanks Copyright Prologue: The Day my World Changed I COME FROM a country which was created at midnight. When...
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...Malala Yousafzai, a courageous 20 year women born on July 12, 1997, has been fighting for women’s right to an education since she was a little girl. She lived in a mountain valley in Swat, Pakistan for her early years of her live. In Pakistan and many other places that aren’t westernized, girls are very oppressed by society and Malala wants to change that. Malala is a very strict Muslim but she is also a great example of Christian Service. Christian Service is something that Christians do to serve others and God, even if they are suffering. Even though Malala has been persecuted for fighting for what she believes in, she keeps fighting for herself and the other 6 million girls who do not get an education. Thesis: Malala, even though she is...
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...Girls' Education Rights in Pakistan On October 9, 2012, in Mingora, Pakistan 15-year-old Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head by two Taliban men when she was arriving home on a bus from school (Wilmore par 1). She was targeted for supporting and speaking out for girls' education rights (Wilmore par 3). In the summer of 2009, Pakistan's military claimed that they drove the group out of the area, but the Taliban are still attacking people there, especially those who support girls' education like Malala (Wilmore par 15). Under Islamic or religious law, all people, including women, should be granted educational rights and freedom in, not only Pakistan, but other parts of the world as well.To begin with, in Pakistan, it is hard for females to receive education because of the Taliban's strict religious laws and attacks (Wilmore par 6). In 2007, the Taliban arrived in Swat Valley, Pakistan, banning music and dancing (Jacobsen par 13), and they also banned women from activities like shopping (Wilmore par 6). The new laws made it uncomfortable for women to go out alone in public because many of their activities were restricted or banned (Jacobsen par 13). To make sure that citizens would not go against them, the Taliban forced them to accept the laws with the use of brutal punishments such as public whippings, bombings, and beheadings (Wilmore par 5). Then the Taliban started destroying schools with bombs, killing students, teachers, and passerby in the process, and they also targeted...
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...Malala Yousafzai, the girl who was shot, or the girl who has changed the world. Malala is a huge public figure in the world who has recently won a noble peace prize. She was shot by the Taliban at the age of fifteen simply because she wanted to go to school. "She now has a program called the Malala Fund which promotes girls education"(Malala Fund). Malala has changed the world through Cristian service and has opened the eyes of many people. Malala has always been fond of going to school and getting educated, even when she was just a little girl. Everyday, she would wake up in the morning in Swat Valley, Pakistan, and eagerly go to the Khushal School, the school her father owned. She was always competitive in school competitions and a hard worker. However, when the Taliban took over Swat Valley, they tried to stop...
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...Malala Yousafzai the Influential Communicator and Education Activist Abstract This paper is about an amazing 17 year old girl who was shot in the head by the Taliban for championing the right of girls to receive an education. Many have asked “what are the qualities of an inspiring leader?” Research shows that leaders create enthusiasm, empower people, instill confidence and inspire the ones around them. In early 2009, Malala Yousafzai started by blogging about life under Taliban rule and that changed her life forever. Malala Yousafzai the Influential Communicator and Education Activist Malala Yousafzai was born on July 12, 1997 to Tor Pakai Yousafzai (mother) and Ziauddin Yousafzai (father) and into a Sunni Muslim family of Pashtun ethnicity. She grew up in Pakistan’s Swat Valley in a house in Mingora. She has two younger brothers and two pet chickens. Malala was educated largely by her father, who is a poet, school owner, and educational activist who runs a chain of schools known as the Khushal Public School. In 2008 Malala started speaking about education rights when her father took her to Peshawar to speak at a local press club. There she was known for saying “How dare the Taliban take away my basic right to education?” Later in 2008 when Malala was only 11, she wrote a blog under a pseudonym of “Gul Makai” for the BBC detailing her life under Taliban rule, the attempts to take control of the valley, and her views on promoting education for girls. Taliban militants...
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...Malala became a hero for all of the many Pakistani girls living in fear of being attacked by the Taliban because she was a brave and caring person to those who needed help in the Valley. She was the one that managed to help Pakistani girls get an education, and who would sacrifice everything, even her life, for that goal. In the writing, it states that when she was young, “she chronicled her experiences as a schoolgirl in the Swat Valley, a region of Pakistan then coming under Taliban control.”(pg.2). She was one of the bravest people there since anyone who was against that Taliban would be brutally executed. However, when the Pakistani army won back control of the Valley, Malala was able to freely campaign for girls’ education. Unfortunately,...
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...Yemi Matthew Professor Dr. Bruce G. Johnson Non-western World: West Africa Sundaita: an epic of old Mali This Epic of Sundiata tells of Sundiata, the great thirteenth-century ruler of Mali. It was transcribed by D. T. Niane. The story was passed through centuries from a long line of griots. The story of Sundiata illustrates the importance of saving the words of the oral historians before the advent of literacy extinguishes their memories. The epic of Sundiata begin with detail of the ancestors, as the force of history in important in the tale of the man whose victory will create the Mali Empire. (pg. xxiv) “I teach king the history of their ancestor, so that the live of the ancients might serve them as an example, for the world is old, but the future spring from the past.” Groit Djeli mamadou kouyate, (pg. 1) The role of groit in Sundiata an epic of old Mali is to protect the king and griot are men of spoken word, and by the spoken word we give life to the gesture of king. First of all, griots are very important to African culture; they are the keepers of tradition and are responsible for making sure things are done according to the customs of their ancestors. This is a very painstaking task because these customs are not written down; they are passed down by word of mouth. Their father teaches each griot, the knowledge griots possess is remembered through song and story, and is passed on with amazing accuracy...
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...Malala report Malala began fighting for women rights when she was 11. She started sharing her opinion against no education for girls in her country by posting on a blog, about how she felt and why. She posted how it wasn’t fair that girls shouldn’t be allowed to have an education just because they lived in Pakistan. She started saying things like how she thought that girls should be allowed to have an education no matter where they lived, and how the girls should be treated better than staying home, taking care of the livestock, and having children. What Malala fights for is not only for women’s rights in general but for women’s rights in education. Malala is a courageous woman, with a strong opinion, and feelings for what she believes in. People love her for that, but they hate her for that too. Malala was 14 when she got shot in the head and neck on October 9,2012. The bullet barely grazed her brain and almost killed her by inches. As her father put it: "When she fell, the person who attacked her wanted to kill her … She fell temporarily, she will rise again, she will stand again. She can stand now." From: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/26/malala-yousafzai-everybodys-daughter-father After the attack, all the surgeons from Pakistan were at war to save Malala’s life. They managed to take out a bullet lodged in her neck. Unfortunately with a threat hanging over the family, they decided to airlift Malala to Britain, and hopefully have her recover...
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...August 23, 2014- While I still have my memory and yours appears to be fried with all the drugs you have done. Here are some of the things I have done for you and helped you out so many many times. I let Monica live here over and over and she would get drunk and physically and verbally abuse me over and over. And you would allow her to do that to me. When you lived in yarmouth and Brewster I would go all the way there and take you for your dr. appt in Brockton and then to New Bedford to get your pills and then back home again. Every month. Lent you money for pills and you still owe me 1,200 from that. Took three trips to Maine to get David so you could see him and spend time with him. Went and got Jake. took You and Monica there after her mother died. Never got anything for gas. 8 hours up and 8 hours back. I take David for all his doctor appts. Took him for his braces and all the appt for the adjustment. Took him to get his wisdom teeth pulled. I did it because I wanted to but when you don’t appreciate it and say the things you do to me it makes me angry. Have picked him up and brought him to his friends so he could hang out with them many times. Again my choice but again no appreciation from you. I located your motorcycle and got it back here for you and paid 225.00 for that and I have never got a dime from that and you sold it and never gave me any money. You had a boat here for 8 years and I paid 225.00 dump fees and have never got any money back for...
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...POBRES MALALAS Malala Yousafzai aos quinze anos foi baleada na cabeça por membros do Talibã. Seu crime: querer estudar e aprender em um país muçulmano dominado por fundamentalistas religiosos. Diz Malala: “O Talibã também desenvolveu um sistema próprio de leis, que não tem nada a ver com o Islã. O Islã nos diz que a educação e o conhecimento são direitos de todas as pessoas. Então, eu acho que o Talibã não leu o Corão da forma apropriada. Eles precisam sentar e ler o texto novamente, com calma. O profeta Maomé nos ensina sobre igualdade, sofre fraternidade, sobre o amor ao próximo. O Talibã se esquece de tudo isso e só se lembra da jihad. Nós, meninas, temos nossa própria jihad pela qual lutar. Temos que lutar pelos nossos direitos e pela educação”. Parece que Malala também não leu o Corão de forma apropriada. O Corão não gosta das mulheres. Eis alguns exemplos: Alcorão Sura 4:34: "Os homens têm autoridade sobre as mulheres, pelo que Allah preferiu alguns a outros, e pelo que dependem de suas riquezas. Então, as íntegras são devotas, custódias da honra, na ausência dos maridos, pelo que Allah as custodiou. E aquelas de quem temeis a desobediência, exortai-as, pois, e abandonai-as no leito, e batei-lhes. Alcorão Sura 38:44: "E apanha, com tua mão, um feixe de capim, então, bate nela com ele, e não violes teu juramento..." Allah dizendo a Jó para bater em sua esposa. A herança do homem vale duas vezes a das mulheres Sura 4:11 O testemunho...
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...When our society thinks of what a hero’s like that often think of abnormal humans. One also might imagine a hero as an athlete or celebrity because they envy their success or fame. They are looked up to because the media is a major aspect of our lives,and it formed a distorted image in our minds of what a true hero is. However, in reality a hero is someone who genuinely cares for others, without trying to seek attention or fame. Heroism is the benevolent attitude a person who is concerned for the welfare of others, and fights through obstacles withholds. Malala is a teen girl who fought for the right of education to be equal for not only her but thousands of other girls too. She stood firm in the belief that the inequality of girls “must be...
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...person, Malala Yousafzai. As many may think that nowadays everyone is given the freedom to educate themselves, but in fact this is not the case. In many countries such as Pakistan women still do not have the right to do as they please, Malala Yousafzai was not able to do as she pleased. Born in 1997, young girl Malala Yousafzai along with all her female friends at the age of twelve were deprived from their freedom of education. Malala decided to use social media to create a blog and informing the rest of the world of her disadvantage, through her writing she became an advocate...
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...Malala Yousafzai Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani activist for girls' education and the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. She is known mainly for human rights advocacy for education and for women in Swat Valley (her hometown), where the Talibans had tried to ban girls from attending school. Yousafzai's voice has since grown into an international movement. Malala attended a school her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, founded. On September 2008, Malala gave out a speech, after the Talibans attacked the girls' school in Swat. The title of her talk is "How dare the Taliban take away my basic right to education". In early 2009, Yousafzai wrote blogs for BBC about her living under the Taliban's threats to deny her an education. On October 9, 2012, on her way home from school, a man boarded the bus Malala was riding in and demanded to know which girl was Malala. When her friends looked toward Malala, her identity was given away. The gunman fired at her, hitting Malala in the left side of her head and the bullet then traveled down her neck. Two other girls were also injured in the...
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...false idols and doom and human destruction would come to them. He told the people that all human beings deserve to be treated equal to everyone else and with respect. This message was a warning to the northern Kingdom. Amos caused so many problems that King Jeroboam kicked him out of the temple. Malala Yousafzai was born on July 12, 1997 in north-west Pakistan. She loved going to school and learning just like her father. In 2009, Malala started writing a blog for BBC Urdu about how she was scared her school was going to be attacked because of the growing military. Within that year, Malala also decided to become an Education Activist. In 2011, she was awarded Pakistan's first National Youth Peace Prize. Taliban Leaders didn’t like a girl winning all this and they wanted Malala killed. On October 9, 2012 Malala was riding a bus home from school with friends when a masked gunman entered the...
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